Sentences with phrase «judgments about schools»

Accordingly, the state board resolved «until empirical studies confirm a sound relationship between performance on the SBAC and critical and valued life outcomes («college and career - ready»), test results should not be used to make normative and consequential judgments about schools and students.»

Let's start the new school year with an open mind, a blank slate and a commitment to use real data when making judgments about schools.

In fact, court judgments about school finance frequently contain explicit notes cautioning that the funds will lead to improvements only if they are used effectively.

By a 10 - 2 vote, the Senate education committee approved a bill last week that would not only change the state tests students take, but also erase several years» worth of judgments about school effectiveness that have been made based on the test scores.

And yet the PM in New Orleans is making judgments about school closure based on a flawed measure that effectively punishes schools for trying to serve a high concentration of kids who are too disadvantaged.

«The changing exclusion rates make it difficult to draw accurate judgments about school improvement and student progress in many schools, as well as across the system as a whole,» the report states.

And despite all the hoopla over class size, citizens» judgments about a school's quality are unrelated to how large or small its classes are.

Indeed, the RSD has incorporated demand data in judgments about school sites, placing popular schools in buildings that can accommodate future growth.

Arizona's «A-F» Letter Grades, published annually by the State Department of Education, have evolved over time, but their purpose has remained the same: to convey a judgment about a school's quality or effectiveness at educating students.

States and schools plan to use the new tests to not only determine how well students are mastering the new standards, but also to make judgments about school and educator performance.

Not exact matches

Decisions about the organization and movement of a theological course of study are, I suggest, largely a matter of prudent judgment by the theological school itself.

We have just seen that, far from unifying them, the fact that theological schools are theological makes them irreducibly different from one another because of different theological judgments about the nature of the Christian thing, what it is to understand God, and what sort of community a theological school is.

Judgments a school at least implicitly makes about these three questions deeply shape its identity and will almost certainly be reflected in the decisions it makes about the content and movement of its course of study.

The main focus of coaching and mentoring conversations for school improvement is to build the competency and capability of teachers, so that they can take steps towards achieving the school's strategic vision and priorities in the curriculum, teaching and learning, and assessment, and can effectively make judgments about students» progress and outcomes.

This may be because schools make judgments about retention and referrals based on a student's relative achievement within a grade, and by virtue of their age, older students are less likely to have very low achievement.

This means that we should instead accept the judgments of those with much more information about school quality, and it will be extremely rare that these more informed assessments of quality will be at odds with parental preferences.

The dismissal of the «professional judgment» approach eliminates a rational way of thinking about a hypothetical situation when research and statistics have not addressed the issue with any definitive conclusions.The authors are more supportive of the «successful schools» approach because it is based on some evidence of relative performance.

In the midst of his takedown, however, came an observation that stopped me in my tracks: «Here's the thing to remember about discipline systems at school — every one of them codifies somebody's value system, sets in rules and regulations judgments like «being compliant is good» or «a good student is one who questions authority,»» Greene wrote.

If your complaint is about an inspection of a school judged to have serious weaknesses or to require special measures, requests for a review of the process of confirming the inspection judgments will be carried out under step three of this policy.

Human beings have to make judgment calls about which kids are «better fits» or otherwise more suitable for entry into this school than other kids.

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

And as Andy Smarick has argued, voucher programs need something akin to authorizers, too, so that decisions about participating schools can be informed by nuance and human judgment, not just by test scores and other data points.

However frustrating it may be at times, I'll keep in mind that the people who do the work in schools, communities, and colleges are usually far better positioned than I am to make judgments about «what works» for their students.

Can they not take a lesson from America's experience with the uses of test - score data in making judgments about educators and schools?

For example, there is no satisfactory way to make judgments about which method of teaching reading is superior — whole language or phonics — without factoring in the socioeconomic, school, and teacher characteristics of each of the groups of students in the experiment.

Teachers should use their professional judgment about the grade value of this exam, and the activities and assessments they will use to ensure the remainder of the school year is productive.

In the post-1940 era, teacher education attempted to use psychological assessments to police teacher personality and to substitute those for local school administrators» judgments about teacher selection and behavior.

This would enable states to make judgments about whether or not schools need CSI based on a comprehensive evaluation of all the data.

Evidence suggests that Americans have been wise enough to ignore the woefully misleading information about student proficiency rates generated by state testing systems when forming judgments about the quality of their state's schools.

For all but the lowest - performing 1 percent of schools (which struggle across the board), a single number will inevitably produce arbitrary judgments about which schools are «better» and «worse,» concealing the specific strengths and weaknesses of specific schools and depriving educators of the information that they need to improve.

Stories are the evidence that allow us to make judgments about what serves us well, and it is the stories about schools that allow communities to build a narrative about the effectiveness of education.

Making judgments about student learning and school quality based on a body of work — a select number of pieces of student work from a number of assessments within a given discipline, provides a much richer and more accurate picture of student learning than a single, disconnected standardized test.

While ESSA required states to add in a couple of additional outcome measures of students and schools, the overwhelming weight of accountability is still upon a single standardized test by which to make important and often high - stakes judgments about students, schools, and districts.

While research can inform the use of value - added measures, most decisions about how to use these measures require personal judgment, as well as a greater understanding of school and district factors than research can provide.

Schools should take account of teachers» observations when making judgments about progress.

Janet Downs, a campaigner with the Local Schools Network who wrote about the revelation in a blog earlier today, said the delays mattered because «outstanding» judgments nearing 10 years of age are «not likely to reflect what is happening in such schools today&Schools Network who wrote about the revelation in a blog earlier today, said the delays mattered because «outstanding» judgments nearing 10 years of age are «not likely to reflect what is happening in such schools today&schools today».

These include a reduction in time spent on testing, the ability for teachers to use their own judgment and expertise to determine what skills their students need to focus on, and an increase in cultural relevancy on the required assessments for students in urban Title I schools like hers (no more questions for city kids about sail boats or babbling brooks!).

He spoke about how there has been a rush to judgment and lack of collaboration in some schools around this issue, noting that though some districts have shifted codes of conduct away from extremely punitive measures, teachers didn't consistently receive the professional development they need.

When they observe happy children with complex needs who appear to behave and look well treated, do inspectors whack out generous «outstanding» judgments as a way of rewarding the school for relieving society of its guilt about what to do with disabled children, rather than basing the grading on whether students are being fully extended to learn?

Parents frequently make judgment calls about whether their child is too sick to go to school, or whether a family vacation or extracurricular activity is worth missing a day for.

She credits her long tenure to training at Long Beach State, the mentorship of older teachers at her school, her colleagues» willingness to share supplies without a second thought, and the knowledge that she can talk to her principal about any issue she's having without risk of judgment.

The comments section on this article show a parent population who see the injustice in this system claiming that «it's about who you know [to get into schools]» and that «years of favoritism and poor judgments have led to this, and without a transparent system it will never improve.»

To a far greater extent than the judgments disclose, counsel for the school had rested his argument about justification squarely and almost exclusively on Sahin, where both chambers of the Strasbourg Court had deferred, with little sign of strain, to the rulings of the Turkish courts and other authorities.

[68] The substantive elements of the termination that the Board found unreasonable included: the principal ordering Mr. Dorval to use codes given the evidence that policy (of RSCHS and Edmonton Public School Board) supported involvement of teachers» professional judgment and consultation; the order being simply announced with little or no consultation; questions or concerns being ignored; little or no communication to students and parents about the codes or their enactment; the failure of the principal and the appellant to respect the professional rights and duties of the teacher regarding assessment of his students; and the discriminatory singling out of Mr. Dorval for discipline when other teachers who also challenged and refused to follow the principal's order were not disciplined.

Justice Perell began his judgment by asking «Can and should this court order that documents that contain information about what happened at the Indian Residential Schools be destroyed?

She's a good friend (definitely not trying to mess with me), and smart (so unlikely to have had a spectacular lapse in judgment), but I'm convinced she must be wrong; I'm barely out of school, and have only been working here for about six months if you count my internship.

One thousand seventy - six adolescents (Female, n = 648; Male, n = 428) attending two high schools that differed in the degree to which they implemented practices to increase the safety and well - being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT students) responded to a questionnaire regarding their attitudes and beliefs about homosexuality and their judgments regarding excluding and teasing lesbian, gay, and gender non-conforming peers.

«It would be a Fair Housing law violation for a Realtor to make a judgment call about a school, so we direct them to visit school system Web sites for test scores and school ratings sites to find out for themselves which schools they want their kids to attend,» Carter said.